Course Details

Advanced Training for Oil Tanker Cargo Operations

Overview

  • Course Date:

    TBA

  • Registration Period:

    TBA

  • Duration/Frequency:

    60 Hours, Mon to Sat (8.30am to 5.30pm)

  • Mode of Training:

    Face-to-Face (Classroom Teaching)

Course Objective

The course aims providing training personnel engaged in Sea Transport sector, at an Advanced level. They include Masters, Chief Engineer Officers, Chief Mates, Second Engineer Officers (Special Limits as well as international voyages), and any person onboard oil tankers with immediate responsibility for loading, discharging, care in transit, handling cargo, tank cleaning, or other cargo-related operations on oil tankers. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) also approves this programme to meet all the requirements under Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) convention Chapter V, Section A-V/1-1 para 2.

This certificate is pre-requisite to obtaining ‘Dangerous Cargo Endorsement’ (DCE) from MPA, mandatory for Senior Shipboard Officers and Engineers.

More Information

The training will include (amongst others):

  • Performing and monitoring all oil tanker cargo operations
  • Familiarity with physical and chemical properties of oil cargoes
  • Taking precaution to prevent hazards from oil cargo, applying occupational health and safety precautions
  • Responding to emergencies on oil tankers
  • Precautions to prevent the environmental pollution from oil tankers
  • Monitoring and controlling compliance with legislative requirements
  • Compliance with MARPOL Annex I regulations